Small introduction to SQL*Net debugging [client side]
Say it's that day again. You try to connect to a (new) database and once again you are facing SQL*Net problems. Blast!. What can you do? Once in a …
Category: AMIS
Book Review: Pragmatic Unit Testing
September 20, 2005
Book reviews and Publications, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server
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Title: Pragmatic Unit Testing Authors: Andrew Hunt, David Thomas ISBN: 0-9745140-2-0 pages: 150 This book gives a good introduction into the different aspects of unit testing. It’s easy readible …
Firefox Search Plugin for Amis Technology Blog
Following the Search Plugins for askTom and Oracle Docs, I created a search plugin for the Amis Technology Blog. Installation: Simply unzip the Amis Search Plugin in the Searchplugin …
Book Review: Beginning Oracle Programming
Title: Beginning Oracle Programming Authors: Sean Dillon, Christopher Beck, Thomas Kyte with Joel Kallman and Howard Rogers Publisher: Apress ISBN: 1-59059-286-7 Publication Date: Sep 2003 Website: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=253
PLDOC, documenting your PL/SQL directly from the database
![PLDOC, documenting your PL/SQL directly from the database]({"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2012\/08\/02\/2018836700.jpg","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"} "PLDOC, documenting your PL/SQL directly from the database")
Ever asked a PL/SQL code developer to create documentation for his code, the way Javadoc is able to create for Java code? It is possible using the open-source tool …
Feuerstein is coming to Amsterdam
On september 8, 2005 Quest Software will organize a training seminar in Amsterdam by Steven Feuerstein. It will cover two topics: 1. Correcting PL/SQL Worst Practices and 2. Survey …
DB utilities – splitting generated DDL scripts
Have you ever tried to split the DDL scripts generated by Designer? Pretty tough, isn’t it? Well, I have a nice solution for you: the Perl script sql_split.pl splits …
Book Review: Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions
Title: Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions Authors: Christoper Beck, Joel Kallman, Chaim Katz, David C. Knox, Connor McDonald Publisher: Apress ISBN: 1-59059-217-4 Publication Date: Dec 2003 Website: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=276 More …
Storing your Oracle Reports in the database
One can come up with several reasons to store your Oracle Reports output. Especially in cases where it needed to prove to authorities that the document you delivered was …
Mastering XML DB – COUNT and SUM
May 20, 2005
AMIS, Announce / Events, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, IT, Web HTML5 CSS3, XML
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Working for years with Oracle’s relational environment, XML DB is a completely different kind of beast. You’re confronted with all the languages and techniques the XML environment has to …
Book Review: Oracle Database 10g A Beginner's Guide
Title: Oracle Database 10g A Beginner’s Guide Authors: Ian Abramson; Michael Abbey; Michael Corey Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media ISBN: 0072230789 Publication Date: March 31, 2004 Website: http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072230789.html The setup …
New Books Shipment in – April 2005
The April shipment of new books has arrived. Some books are in the library, others immediately went home with some of my esteemed colleagues. Some of the books in …
BPEL and Service Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD)
Recently I read an interesting Article about BPEL related analysis and design issues. BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language and is the world standard to describe “Business Processes” …
Book review: Business Process Execution Language
March 17, 2005
Book reviews and Publications, IT, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Title: Business Process Execution Language Author: Matjaz B. Juric, Benny Mathew, Poornachandra Sarang Published by: Packt Publishing ISBN: 1-904811018-3 Publication Date: 2004 Details: 270pages, $59.99; www.packtpub.com I recently read …
New Books Shipment in – March 2005
The first half of the March shipment has arrived. Some books are in the library, others immediately went home with some of my esteemed colleagues. Some of the books …
Bring in the decorators – SiteMesh!
March 7, 2005
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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There are several approaches to keep a consistent look and feel for your web application. Lots of times the site will contain a navigation bar, a heading maybe a …
XmlHttpRequest – blast from the past or future
In several places XMLHttpRequest sprung up this week. XmlHttpRequest is a JavaScript object allowing browser clients to communicate with a server without refreshing the current page. This object originated …
Book Review: Mastering Oracle SQL
Title: Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition Authors: Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu ISBN:0-596-00632-2 Publication Date: June 2004 More info can be found at website of O’reilly. There’s also a sample …
Book review: More Eric Meyer on CSS
Those who have layed out a web page or application with CSS should be familiar with the name Eric Meyer. He has a web page with many well known …
new JHeadstart Team blog Announces production release
February 19, 2005
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Oracle’s JHeadstart team does a double whammy, not only do they release the production version of ADF JHeadstart but they announce it on their brand new weblog. As already …
JDeveloper 10.1.2 bug and release schedule
February 19, 2005
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Recently I ran into a bug in JDeveloper 10.1.2 or actually in the ADF Business Components version supplied with it. Calling getAttributesNames() on a viewobject resulted in a nasty …
Templates in Oracle JDeveloper
Chris Schalk has posted a very interesting blog on web templates in JDeveloper 10.1.2 (production) and JDeveloper 10.1.3 (preview). This how-to is only published on the Chris Schalk’s blog …
Missed MySQL New Toolset
I apparently completely missed the new MySQL toolset, which was announced on December the 8th 2004. The MySQL database ships now with easy-to-use visual database tools: MySQL Query Browser …
Effective Oracle by Design
Title: Effective Oracle by Design – Design and Build High-Performance Oracle Applications Author: Thomas Kyte Published by: Oracle Press ISBN: 0-07-223065-7 Publication Date: 2003 Details: 664 pages, $59.99; www.OraclePressBooks.com …
ADF Faces JHeadstart ?
Andrej Koelewijn spotted a Jason Jacobi post on OTN regarding an upcoming utility for migration of UIX pages to ADF Faces/JSP pages. The upcoming JHeadstart release will support ADF …
Starting with JasperReports
January 20, 2005
AMIS, Databases, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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My first days at AMIS I examined JasperReports (v. 0.6.3), an open source report-generating library. This tool is entirely written in Java and uses XML report templates to generate …
Locking colums in HTML table (IE only)
In a project I’m working on we have a HTML table with many columns for editing certain records. The users requested the possibility to lock the first column so …
(Pre)-compiling JSP for Tomcat with Jasper
When working on a project I like to precompile my JSPs just to test if haven’t made any (syntax) errors or forgot any resources, without having to deploy them …
JHeadStart ADF beta
January 4, 2005
AMIS, Announce / Events, Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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For some time now there have been some excellent viewlets on OTN on the functionallity of the next generation JHeadStart version which will work with Oracle Application Development Framework …
JDeveloper 10.1.2 has arrived
JDeveloper release 10.1.2 is finally available for download (here). This is a maintenance release with some new features and over 1,000 bug fixes for JDeveloper 9.5.0.2.
Just before X-mas
On the 7th of December, I, a database administrator, had a seminar from Mr. Chris Date about “Relational Remodeled” (into the 21st century with the relational model: a technical …
Book Review: Oracle Database 10g New Features – Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning and Administration by Daniel Liu, Don Burleson, Madhu Tumma, Mike Ault
Title: Oracle Database 10g New Features – Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning and Administration Authors: Daniel Liu, Don Burleson, Madhu Tumma, Mike Ault Published by: Rampant Tech Press ISBN: …
Steve Muench on improving ADF performance
December 10, 2004
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Yesterday we had a technical session at Amis on ADF. In one discussion a concern was raised on how all the ADF metadata and the abstractionlayers would affect performance. …
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 Developer Preview is here …
December 6, 2004
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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The Oracle JDeveloper release 10.1.3 Developer preview release can be downloaded from OTN. See JDeveloper Homepage “The Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3) release adds many new features, including a new …
Publications written in 2000
Name Interior Designer 6i date Fri, 28 Apr 2000 This paper was written for the ODTUG 2000 Conference. The author was still working for Oracle Corporation at that time. …
Publications written in 2001
Name From Task description to Product Release – Managing Software Development using Oracle SCM date Thu, 12 Apr 2001 This paper was developed for the ODTUG 2001 Conference. The …
publications written in 2002
Name JHeadstart Designer Generator – How (when and if) to approach a migration from Forms to a J2EE architecture date Sat, 15 Jun 2002 This paper was prepared for …
Publications written in 2003
Name Bob the Warehouse Builder meets Don the DataMiner: From Creative Bookkeeping to Fortune Telling date Wed, 16 Apr 2003 Paper on the Oracle 9i Business Intelligence (prepared for …
Publications written in 2004
Name JHeadstart 10g – Productive J2EE application development without coding Java date Thu, 25 Mar 2004 Article in ODTUG Technical Journal (March 2004) The ODTUG Technical Journal is the …
Putting SPELs on ADF Code
There is a simple way to use the Expression language you use in JSTL expressions in your JSP’s, in ADF’s DataAction. Actually anywhere you can get hold of a …